Palm Springs Is the Perfect City for Pain and Pleasure

After too many years spending our precious winter getaways stuck in peak-season beach traffic, we're moving our vacations onto a different sort of sand. We're heading southwest, to wide-open spaces with red rocks and green chiles and purple skies, where the sun's always shining and dune buggies are legitimate means of transportation. Come on out and join us, because the desert has never been hotter

In this part of California—where you can’t swing a kettlebell without hitting a juice bar or Betty Ford Center—everyone is obsessed with toning and purifying the human body. Which makes it a great place for beating yourself up with exercise and then healing with feel-good treatments. Pretty much every element native to the area can be used for both.